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MESSAGE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Richmond,  Va.,  January  11,  186  4. 

To  the  House  of  Representatives:  , 

In  partial  response  to  your  resolution  of  the  llthult,,  I  herewith 
transmit,  for  your  information  a  communication  from  the  Secretary 
of  Ar  r,  showing  'Mho  number  of  officers  and  men,  including  the  po 
lice  and  mounte  1  guard,  employed  in  executing  the  conscript  law," 
in  the  States  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina  and  Geor- 
gia. Fuithcr  information  on  the  :-ubject  will  be  furnished  when  re- 
ceived. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  SECRETARY   OF  WAR, 

War  Department,  C.  S.  A.,  ) 
Richmond,  Jan.  9,  1864.      ] 

To  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States: 

Sir  :  I  have  received  the  following  resolution  of  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives, referred  by  your  Excellency  to  this  Department: 

"  Resolvd,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  communicate  to  th?3 
House  the  number  of  officers  and  men,  including  '.he  police  and 
mounted  guard,  employed  in  executing  the  conscript  law,  distinguish- 
ing the  number  in  each  congressional  district." 

In  response,  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  the  accompauying  report 
of  Col.  J.  S.  Preston,  Superintendent  of  Conscription,  which  conveys 
the  desired  information  with  regard  to  the  States  of  Virginia,  North 
Carolina,  South  Carolina*  and  Georgia.  A  further  report  will  ba 
made  should  the  returns  be  received  from  the  other  States  before  the 
adjournment  of  Congress. 

Verv  respectfully,  your  obeiient  servant, 

JAMES  A,  SEDDON, 
Secretary  of  War. 


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Bureau  of  Conscription,  C.  S.  A,.  > 
Richmond,    Va.y  Dec.  31,  1863.      ) 

Hon.  James  A.   Seddon,  Secretary  of  War  : 

Sir  :  The  following  resolution  of  the  House  of  Representatives  hag 
been  referred  to  this  bureau  : 

"  Resoled,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  communicate  to  this 
House  the  number  of  officers  and  men,  including  the  police  and 
mounted  guard.  employed  in  executing  the  conscript  law,  distinguish- 
ing the  number  in  each  congressional  district. 

In  reply,  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  accompanying  papers 
marked,  respectively,  Virginia,  North  Carolina.  South  Carolina  and 
Georgia,  the  four  states  over  which  the  jurisdiction  of  this  bureau  ex- 
tended at  the  date  of  the  resolution. 

In  addition  to  the  matter  of  conscription  proper,  this  bureau  is- 
charged  with  duties  requiring,  perhaps,  ten-fold  the  labor  and  force 
demanded  for  the  full  performance  of  that  service. 

1st.  The  arrest  and  return  of  all  deserters  and  absentees  without 
leave  from  the  army,  amounting,  at  this  day,  to  so  frightful  a  per  cen- 
tage  that  it  may  not  be  prudent  to  express  even  a  conjecture. 

2d.  The  whole  matter  of  furloughs  and  details  outside  of  the  array, 
the  details  alone  reaching  thirteen  thousand. 

3rd.  The  whole  matter  of  substitution,  of  which  there  are  now  over 
fifteen  thousand  cases  under  investigation. 

4th.  The  general  external  police  of  the  army  in    all  its  branches. 

In  the  performance  of  these  duties  the  officers  and  men  herewith 
returned  are  employed  and  distributed.  The  fallowing  is  the  sum- 
mary of  the  matter  demanded  in  the  resolution,  the  specific  charac- 
ter may  be  seen  by  reference  to  the  papers  indicated : 

VIRGINIA. 


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REMARK-:. 


A  number  of  men  in  Vnjor  Lee's  bat- 
talion  have  been  detailed  under  trenersl 
order  96,  A.  and  I.  G.  O.,  802,  bein-.r 
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wounds.  This bf ttalion  ;s  not  distributed 
among  the  congressional  district*,  bat  is 
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In  addition  to  these  returns,  I  also   enclose  a   part  of  the  instruc 
tions  of  this  bureau  concerning  the  mutters  involved. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be. 

•■  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

JNO.  S.  PRESTON, 

Colond  and  Superintendent, 


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Bureau  op  OoNscRrr-nnv. 
Richmond. 


To  Gen    S   Cooper,  A.  fy  I.  Gtneral : 

Sir;  The  evil  of  desertion  from. the  army,  with  the  determination 
to  avoid  nnd  even  resist  future  service,  appears  of  late,  on  the  in- 
crease; and  it  more  difficult  to  deal  with,  that  the  soldiers  now  bring 
with  tl  vern men t  arms  and  ammunition,   banding  among  them-- 

selves  and  with  evaders  of  conscription. 

The  enrolling  officers  are  sometimes  shot  by  them,  and  the  commu- 
nity kept,  in  tenor.  This  state  of  tilings  exi  its,  more  or  les3,  in  e  ich  of 
our  Atlantic  States  especially.  The  various  mischief  resulting,  apart 
from  the  loss  of  soldiers  to  the  army,  are  such  as  alt  good  citizens  ar*> 
Entrusted  in  putting  down  ;  and  there  is  a  general  desire  growing  up 
to  aid- the  Government  in  the  matter.  The  War  Department  looks  to 
the  agences  of  conscription  to  apply  the  remedies.  The  resources  at 
xiommand  of  the  authorities  of  conscription  are  insufficient  in  number 
and  in  character,  for  the  repressive  measures  needed. 

Application  for  aid,  to  the  military  commanders,  are  usually  un- 
successful ;  occupied  with  the  enemy,  the  general  expects  these  mat- 
ters to  be  somehow  provided  for  by  home  authorities,  and  are  not 
•tempted  to  even  a  brief  loan  of  force,  by  the  prospect  of  return  in  an 
addition  to  their  numbers.  There  many  objections  to  asking  special 
organizations  for  the  purposes  in  view.     It  is  therefore  suggested 

1.   That  co'-«criptH  enough  he  retained,  from  among  those  present- 


ing  themselves,  as  owning  horse-  for  cavalr^   service,    to   sti|  the 

necessities  of  patrol-  in  .  ach  State,  ami  be  allowed,  while  so  ei         »ed, 
cavalry  pay  and  commutation  of  forage    and   rations      No     -  >oal 

officers  will  be  needed,  only  an  aurhmity  to  draw  arms 

2.  That  the  commandants  of  conscripts  for  States,  be  autlu  d  to 
order  payment  to  citizens,  while  aiding  in  this  busines,  'of  r  lire 
for  their  horses  and  actual  expenses  i»f  travel  and  foiage,  ul  hire 
horses,  when  ruoes*an,  to  uioui  t  emolling  officers  or  eo  -  ipts. 
This  authority  would  need  to  bo  exercised  for  a  time,  on  a  somewhat 
larg"  scale,  but  the  ultimate  economy  and  public  advantage  of  -p.-edy 
repression,  before  this  new  evil  can  le  spread  into  hr^ei  proportions, 
would  be  very  great.  The  commandants  are  very  judicious  and  dis- 
creet officers. 

3.  That  when  Governors  of  States  may  conset,  small  bodies  of 
militia  may  he  taken  into  temporary  service  (under  those  command- 
ants) and  paid  as  infantry  or  cavalry ,. according  to  the  duties  required 
For  example,  at  tin  ftrries  over  some  of  the  streams  in  "Virginia, 
guards  are  very  necessary  to  stop  soldiers  escaping  from  'he  army 
into  North  Carolina  and-Tennes^ee  The  militia  might  furnish  th  se, 
s«y,  for  the  moment.  In  order  to  act  vigorously  at  once, an  average  of 
fifty  m  n  to  each  congressional  district. 

4.  As  a  mere  suggestion,  (liible  perhaps  to  objection  in  other  re- 
spects) I  inv:te  consideritioo  whether  a  call  may  not  be  mile  on  the 
men  between  for  y  and  forty-five,  for  this  home  service  only,  (  under 
the  commandants  of  c^ngcripts)  which  is  important  to  the  police  and 
peace  of   :he  home  commun  t  >  the  army. 

If  these  measures  be  adopted,  my  information  it  dines  m"  to  be- 
lieve :hat  in  a  few  weVks  it  will  have  beco  ue  known  throughout  our 
armies,  that  borne  affords  no  safety  for  the  individual  de  trter,  *nll 
less  for  armed  bands  of   such 

1  am,  sir,  very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

G.  W.  LAY, 
Luut.  Col.,  A.  A.  G.,  acting  Chief  of  Bur  au. 

Endorsed  by  the  War  Department  as  follows:  Approved,  except 
the  last  suggestion,  which  is  not,  at  tins  time   deemed  judicious. 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 
June  30,  18J3  Secretary  if  War. 

Official  copy  to  commandant  of  conscripts  for  Va. 

G.  W.  LAY. 
Luut.  Col.,  d.  A    G.,  act  ing  Chief  of  Bureau. 

Conscript  Offck,       } 
Richmond,   Dec.   14,  1308.  \ 

Official:  Jas.  II.  Binford,  Lievt.  ad  Adjutant, 


CIRCULAR. 

9  Conscript  Office,      > 

Richmond,  July  7,  13G3.  ) 

To  Disiri  t  Enrolling  OJfiers  : 

The  evil  of  desertion  from  the  army,  -with  the  determination  to 
avoid,  and  even  to  resist  future  service,  appears  to  be  on  the  increase. 
The  War  Department  looks  to  the  agencies  of  conscription  to  arrest 
the  growing  evil,  and  has  adopted  the  following  regulations  for  in- 
creasing the  force  at  the  disposal  of  the  commandant : 

1.  A  sufficient  number  of  conscripts  can  be  retained  from  among 
those  presenting  themselves  as  owning  horsss  for  cavalry  service,  to 
supply  the  necessity  of  patrols  in  each  district,  and  be  allowed  while 

try    pay   and    commutation   of  forage   and    rations. 
Iditional  officers  will  be  needed,  but  on  application  to  this  office, 
authority  will  be  given  to  dr^w  arms. 

2.  The  commandant  of  conscripts  is  authorized  to  order  payment 
to  citizens  while  aiding  in  the  service,  of  a  fair  hire  for  their  horses 
N.ud  actual  expenses  of  travel  and  for-dga,  also  to  hire   horses,  in  ex- 

mount  enrolling  officers  or  conscripts. 
when    Governors  of  States  may  consent,  small  bodies  of 
malitia  may  be  taken  into  temporary  service  (under  the  direction  and 
control  of  the  comi  t)  and  pud  as  infantry  or  cavalry  according 

to  the  duties  requi 

The  commandant  desires  that  you  immediately  proceed  to  organize 
such  force  as  may  he  needed  in  your  district,  reporting  die  names  and 
number  of  persons  so  employed.  In  the  selection  of  persons  so  em- 
ployed  for  this  service,  he  is,  to  a  great  extent,  dependant  upon  the 
judgement  and  liscretion  of  the  district  officers;  and  he  entertains 
the  hope  that  by  the  selection  of  suitable  assistants,  and  the  exercise 
of  the  necessary  vigilance  and  activity,  many  men  may  be  returned 
to  service,  and  the  evil  of  desertion  effectually  stopped. 
Very  respectfully, 

J.  H.  BINFORD, 
Lieut,  and  Adjutant. 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  General's  Office,      ) 
Richmond,  October  29,  18G3.  J 

General  Ordeks,  ) 
No    141.  \ 

\.  The  practice  of  relieving  officers  from  commands  to  which  thsy 
fhave  been  appointed  and  assigned,  and  ordering  them  to  report  in  per- 
son to  this  office  for  further  assignment,  will  cease,  unless  specially 
a-eqireud  by  orders  from  this  office. 


II.  Soldiers  returning  home  on  furlough,  or  on  reaching  places  at 
which  they  will  stay  during  furlough,  will  immediately  report  to  the 
nearest  enrolling  officer,  who  will  keep  a  register  of  their  names,  de- 
scriptive list,  place  where  stationed,  by  whom  the  furlough  was 
granted,  and  the  time  at  which  it  expires. 

III.  When  at  the  expiration  of  his  furlough,  and  being  at  a  distance 
from  any  Hospital  Examining  Board,  a  soldier  is  unable  to  travel,  the 
enrolling  officer  will  order  him  before  the  Board  of  Examiners  for 
Conscripts,  and,  the  medical  officer  and  one  of  the  physicians  em- 
ployed concurring,  they  will  forward  to  his  commanding  General, 
with  a  statement  of  his  case,  a  recommendation  for  an  extension  of 
furlough,  not  to  exceed  thirty  days,  duplicates  being  also  sent  to  the 
Surgeon  General.  But  when  the  soldier  is  accessible  to  a  general 
hospital,  he  will  be  sent  before  the  Hospital  Examining  Board,  who 
will  conform  to  the  proceeding  instructions. 

IV.  In  cases  of  sickness  or  wounds,  which,   from  any   cause,   are 
neglected,  or  do  not  receive  proper  treatment,  the  disability  in  conse 
quence  being  prolonged,  the  soldier  will  be  sent,  by  the  enrolling  offi- 
cer, to  the  nearest  camp  of  instruction,  far  treatment  in  hospital. 

V.  Recommendation  for  extension  of  leave  to  officers  and  furloughs 
to  soldiers,  and  medical  certificates  to  officers,  and  certificates  of  dis- 
ability to  soldiers,  will  on  y  be  given  by  authorized  Boards  >f  Exami- 
ners, as  in  cases  embraced  in  the  first  section  of  Paragraph  III,  of 
this  order,  by  the  B  ardof  Examiners  for  Conscripts.  Recommenda- 
tions or  certificates  from  private  phy  icians  or  from  -a  medical 
officer  singly,  will  not  be  received.  Paragraphs  171  and  17.3,  Gene- 
ral' Regulations,  and  paragraph  I,  general  order  No.  51,  current 
series  from  this  office,  are  amended  to  accord  with  this  paragraph. 

VI.  Furloughed  soldiers  will  not  be  permitted  to  go  within  the  lines 
of  the  enemy. 

By  order, 

S    COOPER, 
Adft  a?\d  Insp'r  General. 


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Captain  C.  B.  Duffield,  A.  A.  (7.; 

Sir:  In  accordance  with  your  communication  of  the  1.5th  instant,. 
I  have  the  honor  fb  send  above  the  report  called  for.  In  submitting 
this  report.  I  respectfully  call  the  attention  of  the  Superintendent  of 
the  Bureau  to  the  enclosed  copies  of  authority  under  which  enrolled 
men  have  been  retained  for  guard  duty.  One  eighth  of  this  force 
would  be  sufficient  to  enable  enrolling  officers  to  discharge  the  duties 
of  eop-scrip'ion.  It  was  only  necessary  to  employ  it  to  enforce  the 
orders  made  incumbent  upon  the  agencies  of  conscription,  namely: 
to  return  to  the  army  all  stragglers  and  deserters.  Recently,  by 
general  orders,  No.  141,  current  series,  it  is  made  the  duty  of  officers 
and  detachments  on  conscript  service,  to  revise  and  report  upon  all 
persons  absent  from  the  army  on  fur  ough  and  sick  leave,  and  v.  her© 
the  party  cannot  return  inconsequence  o  continued  disability.  Thus, 
it  will  be  observed,  that  the  U/>or  of  these  officers  has  be.tn  largely 
increased,  and  which  is  being  performed  satisfactorily. 

I  have  not  been  aMe  to  compile  tie  returns  accurately,  but  believe 
that  something  like  four  thousand  men,  improperly  absent,  have 
returned  to  the  army  since  this  remedy  w;m  applied.  Recently 
instructions  have  been  issued  to  the  district  officers  to  toike  accurate 
monthly  returns,  which  have  been  received  in  part.  Four  districts 
still  to  be  reported.  The  number  returned  during  the  month  of 
November  from  the  districts  reported  wag  forwarded  to  the  Bureau  on 
the  fourteenth  of  the  present  month,  Making  a  reasonable  estimate; 
for  the  districts  not  heard  from,  the  number  for  NYvcmb  t  will  bo  six 
hundred.  Stragglers  and  deserters  from  the  army  still  continue,  and 
it  will  be  impossible  for  the -enrolling  officers  to  return  such  persons, 
unless  they  have  a  supporting  force.  Inspection  is  now  goin  ; 
with  a  viev  of  diminishing  the  number,  if  possible,  aid  every  proper 
inducement  offered  'o  persons  not  liable  to  enter  this  sper*  al  sn  vice 
as  directed  in  circular,  No  33,  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  ft 
a  force  can  be  raised  on  ler  the  provisions  of  the  circular  referred  to, 
then  the  men  now  retained  will  be  forwarded  to  the  camps  of  instruc- 
tion for  assignment. 

I  am,  Captain,  very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  C.  SHIELDS, 
Colo  nd  Co  m  m  a  n  di  n  g . 


REPORT  OF  THE  DUMBER  OF  MEN  EMPLOYED  ON  CON- 
SCRIPT DUTY  IN  THE  STATE  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 


Conscript  Office,      ) 
Uckiji,  N.  C,  Dec.   17,   1363.  J 

Capt,  C.  B.  DuFFiLLD,  A.  A.  G., 

Bureau  of  Conscription,  Richmond,  Va.  : 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  3  oar  commu- 
nication of  the  I5tb  instant,  requiring  an  immediate  report  of  the 
"  officers  and  men,  including  the  police  and  mounted  guards,  employed 
in  executing  The  Conscript  Law,  distinguishing  the  number  in  each 
Congressional  District/'  and  beg  leave  respectfully  to  submit  the 
following,  to  wit: 


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5 

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REMABKS. 

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Turned  over  to  State  authorities,  except  four  counties. 

The  officers  In  this  dtHtrict  operate  in  four  counties  of  the  Srst  district. 

The  men  disabled  soldiers 

assistance,  when  required,  from  the  Qreneral  commanding. 
Camp  Holmes,  located  in  this  district;  500  men,  used  whenever  reqn'red. 
56th  N.  C  ,  regiment,  Colonel  Falpon,  and   detachment  of  60  men  from  Camp 

Holmes,  are  operating  in  thia  district. 
68to  X.  U.  regiment,  Co'ooel  Faison,  and  detachment  of  60  men  from  Camp 

Holmes,  are  operating  in  this  diat.yict. 
The  men  disabled  soldh  r- 

Camp  V»nce,  locate  I  in  this  district;  250  men,  used  in  enforcing  the  law  in 
iatriot. 

Total, 

47     ) 

14 

In  addition  to  the  officers  and  men  enumerated  in  the  above  table, 
there  are  at  Camp  Holmes  sixteen  officers  and  one  surgeon  and  one 
assistant  Burgeon,  and  at  Camp  Vance  eight  officers  and  one  assistant, 
surgeon  ;  and  in  each  district  one  surgeon  and  two  private  physicians, 
who  constitute  a  board  of  medical  examiners. 

Besides  the  six  companies  of  mounted  men,  now  being  organized 
by  Captain  McRae,  there  is  no  police  or  mounted  guards  employed  in 
the  execution  of  the  law  in  this  State. 

^  The  seven  hundred  and  fifty  (750)  men,  comprising  the  six  Camp 
Guard  companies,  together  with  the  six  companies  now  being  organized 
as  a  supporting  force  by  Captain  McRae,  and  five  officers  attached  to 
the  office  of  the  commandant,  compose  the  entire  foice  employed  for 
the  purposes  of  conscription  in  this  State,  except  the  forty-seven 
officers  and  fourteen  disabled  soldiers  enumerated  in  the  above  table. 
I  am,  Captain,  yqtj  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

PETER  MALLETT, 
Colonel,  Commandant  of  Conscripts  fur  N.   C. 


REPORT  OF  THE  NUMBER  OF  OFFICERS  AND  MEN  EM- 
PLOYED  ON  CONSCRIPT  DUTY  IN  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 


Headquarters  Conscript  Department,  ) 

Columbia,  S.  CI,  Doc.  24,  1863.      $ 

Colonel  John  S.  Preston, 

Superintendent  of  Conscription  : 

Colonel     As  required  by  your  communication  of  the —  instant, 

I  herewith  submit  my  report  of  the  "number  of  officers  and  men,  in- 
cluding the  police  and  mounted  guard,  employed"  in  this  State  "in 
executing  the  Conscript  Laws,"  called  for  under  resolution  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  of  Congress 

This  report,  you  will  observe,  exhibits  the  following  numbers  : 

In  Enrolling  Service,  proptr. 
Officer',  commissioned,         .-«"-»- 
Mi-n,  conscripts  and  disabled  soldiers,     --•-•- 


In  Arresting  Deserters,  §*c. 

Officers,  commissioned,  -  -         -  3 

Men,  conscripts  and  disabled  soldiers,    -         -         -  138 


CI 


141 


Total, -      206 

Those  engaged  in  "arresting  deserters,"  cannot  properly  be  said  to 
be  "employed  in  executing  the  Conscript  laws,"  but,  being  under 
the  direction  and  control  of  the  enrolling  department,  it  appears  pro- 
per to  include  them  in  the  report. 

There  is  no  force  used  in  this  State,  under  the  direction  of  this 
department,  as  a  "police,"  or  "mounted  guard,"  other  than  those 
enumerated  as  employed   "in  arresting  deserters." 

The  conscripts  so  used  are  selected  from  those  w.ho  are  able  to 
furnish  their  own  horses;  and,  as  a  general  rule,  they  quarter  at  their 
own  homes.  Of  this  class  there  are  seventy-eight  in  this  State—fifty 
of  whom  are  constantly  employed  in  the  mountain  districts  of  Pickens, 
Greenville  and  Spartanburg,  where  alone  we  encounter  much  diffi- 
culty in  suppressing  desertion.  Of  the  class  of  disabled  soldiers  so 
employed,  detailed  under  paragraph  nv  ,  general  orders  06,  A.  and  I. 
G.  0.,  (1862) — of  whom  there  a&e  sixty  reported—but  few  are  found 
to  be  of  much  service.  They  generally  cannot  mount  themselves, 
and  many  of  them  are  too  much  disabled  to  be  efficient. 
Your  mofit  obedient, 

C.  D.  MELTON, 
Major,  Commandant  Conscripts. 


12 


REPORT  of  Numbn  of  Officers  and   Men,  including  the    Poire   and 

Mounted   Guard,  ■              i   in  executing  the  C  Suuth 

CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT. 

Chief                                  jor,  1 

ig  officer,   captains,  2 
first  lieutenants, 

ond  lie:  tenant,  1 
conscrip 

first  lieutenant,                    •  1 

soldier,  disabled,  1      1 1 

Arresting  deserters,   vol. lief.-,  disabled,  1 

conscripts,  i$       o 

•i.l,                                                       .  16 

SECOND   CONGRESSIONAL    DISTRICT. 

Cbief  enrolling  officer,  in  j or,  1 

Sub  enrolling  officer,   fiist  lieutenant,  1 

iug  officer,  soldiers,  disabled,  2 

scripts,  1 


Tot  5 

THIRD  CO.NGRESRIONAL  DISTRICT. 

CbieT  enrolling  officer,  major,  1 

>lj  enrolling  officer,  captain,  1 

first  lieutenant,  I 

conscripts,  3 

Ass't  enrolling  offic< r,  conscript,  1       f> 

cVrresting     deserters,  soldiers,  disabled,  1 

conscripts,  10     U 

Total,  17 

FOURTH  CONGUES.SIONAL  DISTRICT. 

Chief  enrolling  officer,  first  lieutenant,  I 

Sub  enrolling    officer,  first  lieutenants,  3 

second  lieutenants,  2 

conscripts,  3       8 


Arresting    deserters,   officers  disabled,  lieutenants  2 

soldiers,  disabled,  21 

conscripts,  1     25 

Total.  33 


13 


riFTII  CONGRESSIGNAI    DISTRICT 


< ",'hief  enrolling  officer,  major, 

Sub  enrolling  officer,  captains, 

tij  st  lieutenants, 
second  lieutenant, 

Ass't  enrolling  effie-er,  first  lieutenant, 

second  lieutenant, 
c-oldiers,  disabled, 
conscript, 
deserters,  officers  di^ableu,  lieu 
soldiers,  disabled, 
soldiers,  detailed, 
conscripts, 

Tot.,  I, 


10 


5i    r  4 


94 


SIXTH  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT. 


Chief  enrolling  officer,  major, 

Sub  enrolling    officer,  major, 

captains, 

second  lieutenant, 

lieutenant  colonel,  disabled, 

Ass'f  enrolling  officer,  first  lieutenant,. 
conscript, 
• 

Arresting    deserters,  soldiers,  di: 

soldiers,  detailed, 
conscripts, 


12 


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3 
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Via!. 


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AT  HEAD^UARTEl 

Colo  man  d  a  n  t  con  sc  lipls,  m  <*jor . 
Assistants,  first  lieutenants, 

second  lieutenants, 

non-commissioned  officer,  detai'ed, 

conscripts, 


Total, 


AT  CAMP  OF  INSTRUCTION. 


Commandant  of  camp  and  quartermaster,  major,  1 

Assistant,  soldier,  disabled,  1 

Drill  master,  eccoid  lieutenant        1 


Total. 


14 


J1ECAFI7UTATT0N,   NO.    1 


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ng  ser- 

in  B 1                    U-/- 

Toti 

vice  proper. 

sertere,  fco. 

First  Cong' 

1  District, 

11 

5 

16 

Second     *.* 

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11 

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8 

25 

35 

Fifth 

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84 

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16 

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A  i  ..    •   qu  irU  re, 

9 

— 

9 

At  c   cop  of 

instruction. 

3 

— 

3 

Totals, 


Ui 


RECAPITULATION,  NO.  2. 


in 


In  enrolling ser-     In  arresting  de- 


Totals, 


64 


205 


Total. 


vice  proper. 

sorters.  &o. 

Majors, 

8 



8 

Lieutenant  Colonel, 

I 

— . 

! 

Captains, 

9 

— 

9 

First  lieutenants, 

18 

,9 

Ac 

20 

Second  lieutenants, 

8 

I 

9 

Non  -  coir  m  i  -;  sioned  o 

fficer, 

1 



I 

Privates  detailed, 

5 

60 

65 

Conscripts  detailed, 

14 

78 

$Z 

141 


205 


RECAPITULATION,  NO.   3, 


Commissioned  as  enroll- 
ing  officers, 

Commissioned  as  drill- 
masters, 

Officers  of  line,  disabled, 

Officers  of  disbanded 
battalions, 

Officers  detailed  on  sur- 
geon's certificate, 

Soldiers  and  non-corn- 
missioned  officers  dis- 
abled, and  on  special 
detail, 

Conscripts  detailed, 

Totals, 


In  enrolling  ser-     In  arresting  de- 
vice proper  Berters,  &c. 

19  — 


12 

9 


6 
14 

64 


Total. 


19 


12 

1 1 


60 

G6 

78 

9$ 

41 

•      205 

15 

ft  EC  A?I  ILLATION,  NO.  4. 

Commandant  of  conscripts,  1 

Assistants,  8 

Commandant  of  camp  of  instruction,  1' 

Assistant  and  drill-master,  2 

Chief  enrolling  officers,  6 

Sub  enrolling  officers,          •  30 

Assistant  enrolling  officers,  16 

Total,  64, 


REPORT  OF  THE  NUMBER  OF  OFFICERS  AND  ME...   [K- 

CtUDINO  THE   POLICE    AND   MOUNTED  GUARDS, 

PLOYED    IN    ENFORCING    THE    CONSCRIPT    LA v        IJS 

GEORGIA. 

Headquarters  Conscription  Georci 
Macon,  Doc.  82,  1864. 

!.   J<  HN   S.  PrESTOV, 

Superintendent  Bur  uu  of  Conscription,  Richmond,  Va  : 

{    ■  onei  :   1  have  the  honor  to  call   your  attention  to  the 
-  report,  called  for  by  your  communication,  under  date  of 
i  won  id  s-ate  that  there   are  quite  a  number  of  men   in    Major 
I  battali   n    who  have  been  detailed  under  general  orders  1\ 

A.  an  I   I    G.   0.,  1    G2,  as   unfit   for  active    field   duty,  by  reason  of 
wounds  received  in  action.      This  battalion    is   not  distribut*  .1 
the  congressional  districts,  but  is  ordered,  as  occasion  requires,  where 
*nost  needed. 

I  remain,  Colonel,  very  respectfully, 

CHARLES  HARRIS, 
Mnjor  and  Commandant  Conscripts  State  <f  Gee 


Firmt  of  th°  number  of  officers  and  men.  in  hiding;  the  police  am 

ds,  employed   i.t    executing    the    Conscript   Laws   in    the    Sta        t 
■  gia. 


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At  cann>  of   instruction 

i  and  mcu  belonging  to  Major 

0.  \V.   Lee's  battalion  of  Etingere 

for    the    arrest.    5f   desert  rs   and 




G/and  total. 


Notb. — The  number  of  surgeons  on  the  examining  boards,  and  ar  the  camps  of  instruction 
i  included  in  the  number  of  officers.  The  n;un"S  of  Majors  A.  II.  McLaws  and  AJ.  F.  Berry, 
inspe  t  >rs  of  conscription  for  Georgia,  were  accidentally  omitied,  which  swells  the  number  of 

officers  to  ninety- eight. 


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